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Dr. Divya Sharma is an Assistant Professor in Sustainable Development Studies at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) within the University of Sussex Business School. Her research focuses on the intersection of labor politics, environmental sustainability, and postcolonial agrarian geographies in the Global South. She holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University (2017), an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge (2008), and an MA in Sociology from the University of Delhi (2007). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2021) and Co-Director of the MSc Sustainable Development program.
Her work employs critical ethnography and oral histories to examine how technological interventions and global political economies shape rural labor practices and ecological relations. Key research areas include agroecology, gendered labor dynamics, and transnational social movements advocating for socially just and ecologically sustainable futures. She has conducted postdoctoral research on poverty dynamics and green revolutions in South India, funded by the ESRC-DFID (2017–2019).
Teaching includes undergraduate modules on sustainability and postgraduate courses on decolonizing development. Her research has contributed to policy dialogues such as the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and DEFRA consultations on genetic technologies. Recent publications analyze transnational agrarian movements, care labor in rural India, and contested agrarian histories in Tunisia and India.
